About the Program and the Speaker
In his talk, Dr. Aaron C. Belkin’88 will discuss the 17-year struggle to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” legislation, which banned lesbians and gays from serving openly in the military. Belkin, a scholar with more than a decade of hands-on experience in the repeal campaign, shares an insider’s perspective on the strategies that he and others used to encourage a change of mind – and change of heart — in the American people and its Congress.

Dr. Belkin founded the Palm Center, an institute that produces scholarship designed to enhance the quality of public dialogue about critical and controversial public policy issues. He has been one of the nation’s leading advocates on the gays-in-the-military issue for more than a decade. For more information on Dr. Belkin, click here .

We will also be joined at this event by Todd Andrews ’83, VP of Alumni Relations andGinny McQueen ’81, Associate Director of Regional and Faculty Programs. They will be traveling from Providence and are looking forward to meeting the Brown Community in San Diego!